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NHS IT director general Granger's salary revealed

News NHS IT chief Richard Granger has earned more than £1m in the four years since his appointment as director general of the £7bn Connecting for Health project in 2002. He said: "I find it interesting what IT directors earn in other organisations not...

Tags: richard granger, freedom of information, freedom of information act

[30 May 2006]

The McCue Interview: Criminal Justice <strong>IT</strong> <strong>director</strong>-<strong>general</strong> John Suffolk

The McCue Interview: Criminal Justice IT director-general John Suffolk

Comment It is hard to truly reflect the scale of the job of joining up and modernising the UK's criminal justice IT systems and the myriad agencies and departments involved but Suffolk has to deal with four different ministers, the Home Secretary, the...

Tags: john suffolk, cjit

[06 Mar 2006]

Interview: NHS IT director general Richard Granger

Comment Every institution has things about it which are unique. That's NHS IT chief Richard Granger's response to the mounting criticism of the 10-year £7bn Connecting for Health (CfH) modernisation programme, which has been described as the largest civil...

Tags: nhs cfh, richard granger, freedom of information act, nhs

[26 May 2006]

"I am a tiger, I am a tiger" - IT director assertiveness

Comment It all felt a bit like a self-help weekend for stressed people as director after director spoke about being ignored and undervalued within organisations. Our advice is to be more proactive and work on reforming the roll of the IT director and even...

[20 May 2002]

News in View: ecommerce and the IT director

News This week's News in View programme investigates the protean role of the IT director in the online marketplace. Ecommerce has transformed the role of the IT director, making information systems more and more important in the corporate environment.

[06 Dec 1999]

Confusion over Granger's NHS departure

News Confusion surrounds the future of the job running the NHS' £12.4bn flagship IT programme and the timetable for the departure of director-general Richard Granger. The prospects for the IT director-general's role will not become clear until a review...

Tags: cfh, hospital, nhs, emergency services

[15 Jan 2008]

NHS CIO jumps ship

News Matthew Swindells was acting as interim boss of the £12.4bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT) following the departure of NHS IT director general, Richard Granger, at the beginning of the year. The department is currently in the process of...

Tags: granger, cio, department of health, nhs

[15 Apr 2008]

Summer slowdown bad for IT projects

News Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at payments body Voca, said: "With the general slowdown, it is actually a time when we can get things done with fewer distractions - when we aren't on holiday too of course.

Tags: project management, productivity, upgrades, cio jury

[03 Aug 2007]

UK CIOs to be rewarded for innovation

News On the shortlist for public sector CIO of the year are Richard Granger, director general of NHS IT; Simon Norbury, head of ICT at Westminster City Council; Steve Palmer, IT director at the London Borough of Hillingdon; Peter Ryder, head of ICT at...

Tags: innovation, cios

[16 Jan 2006]

CIO Jury: Who is to blame for security breaches?

News Margaret Smith, director of business information systems at Legal & General, said that while vendors should be held accountable in some way, compensation is not the way. Ted Woodhouse, IT director at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said the...

[27 May 2004]

Ecommerce should be prime board focus, says IoD chief

News George Cox, the recently appointed director general of the Institute of Directors (IoD), was interviewed on Silicon.com's Agenda Setter programme earlier this week and spoke about the perception of IT and ecommerce at board level.

[15 Dec 1999]

CIO Jury: Is industry experience vital for IT chiefs?

News Richard Rundle, IT director at BAA, said: "At CIO levels the general management skills not the technical skills are the key. If you are a CIO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be...

Tags: cio jury

[13 Apr 2006]

CIO Jury: Companies fear offshoring customer backlash

CIO Jury: Companies fear offshoring customer backlash

News Both Colin Cobain, IT director at Tesco, and Margaret Smith, director of business information systems at Legal & General, said customer reaction to offshoring is one of a range of factors that always has been considered.

[05 Jul 2004]

CIO Jury: Are the UK's most senior IT execs too stressed out?

News It was a sentiment echoed by Margaret Smith, director of business information systems at Legal & General. Graham Yellowley, director of technology at Tokyo-Mitsubishi bank in London, accurately predicted the CIO Jury vote and claimed 60 per cent of...

[10 Jun 2004]

CIO Jury: Corporates get blogging bug

News Margaret Smith, director of business information systems at insurer Legal & General said corporates may not have any say in its use in businesses. That view was supported by Derek Gannon, IT director at The Guardian newspaper, who described...

[04 Aug 2004]

CIO Jury: Gates' password prediction wrong

CIO Jury: Gates' password prediction wrong

News If you are a CIO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be, then drop us a line at editorial@silicon.com

[19 Nov 2004]

CIO Agenda: It's the business, stupid

Comment Legal & General's Margaret Smith said it is important to teach IT people how to market themselves, while Graham Benson, information services director and CIO at Screwfix Direct, said it simply boils down to "delivering measurable return on...

[22 Dec 2004]

iPhone too pricey for businesses

News But only one of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT director panel said they have plans to make the iPhone available to staff in the range of corporate phones they offer. Michael Elliot, IT director at toymaker Hasbro UK, said the iPhone will be on...

Tags: cio jury, apple, iphone

[24 Sep 2007]

Profile: CIO from the business

Comment In 1994 she moved to Mars as sales and marketing systems director. Before that she was group director of IS procurement and logistics and MD for South East Europe at Novar, a building system conglomerate.

Tags: cio role

[18 Oct 2006]

IT consulting: Small firms flourishing

Comment Bob Moul, operations director at consultancy Zeda, says: "It became increasingly difficult to differentiate ourselves with a general proposition, so we now focus on specific skills. Steve Watmough, managing director at Chester-based IT consultancy...

Tags: it consulting

[18 Nov 2004]

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